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Communication Highwire: Leveraging the Power of Diverse Communication Styles
Click on the logo above to order. "Beyond Valuing to LEVERAGING Diversity..." A practical book including 4 models, 37 stories, and 26 reproducible activities grounded in theory for using differences at work, in communities, or at home. Authored by Dianne Hofner Saphiere, Barbara Kappler Mikk, and Basma Ibrahim DeVries. Published by Intercultural Press. US$34.95.
Shinrai: Building Trusting Relationships with Japanese
Colleagues Shinrai is a high quality audio CD and
24-page booklet that helps busy executives build lasting and
fruitful business relationships in Japan, and with Japanese
colleagues. The approach is a combination of cultural
insights and relationship-building phrases. Learn Japanese
common sense, which may be vastly different from that which
you were raised. Develop comfort with several high-impact
phrases in Japanese, not "standard" phrases, but
phrases that truly show your sincerity and make a difference.
Whether you travel to Japan on business, work via phone and
email with Japanese, or live and work in Japan, this CD will
improve your productivity and effectiveness in your day to
day dealings. US$39.95, with volume discounts available. Click on the logo above to purchase Shinrai with a credit card. Click here to
read reviews of Shinrai. Redundancia: A Foreign Language Simulation Requires 10 minutes to conduct and about 30 to
debrief. Participants experience speaking a language nonfluently:
how it affects one's ability to stay focused and connected with
the listener, and one's feelings of competence and confidence.
Participants also experience listening to second language
speakers: their own tendencies to help or to become distracted.
Observers note the speaker's nonverbal communication. Extremely
powerful. US$85.00 for a Starter Kit, including Facilitator Manual and 20 User DiscoveryGuides – all you'll need to get started with 20 participants. Click here to purchase a Redundancia Starter Kit (Facilitators' Guide plus 20 user DiscoveryGuides) with a credit card.
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US$24.95 for additional sets of 20 DiscoveryGuides – order extra sets for use with more participants. Click here to purchase additional sets of 20 Redundancia DiscoveryGuides.
Click here to view articles about Redundancía's use. Click here for customer comments on Redundancia.
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Ecotonos:A Multicultural Problem-Solving Simulation
A powerful and extremely adaptable simulation, Ecotonos breaks the usual stereotypes and barriers. Participants improve their skills and strategies for making decisions and solving problems in groups with sometimes conflicting priorities. Ecotonos can be used multiple times with the same people by selecting a new problem and different variables, with each replay offering new and different cross-cultural perspectives. Eight to fifty participants form three groups and create their own "cultures". Participants begin to solve a problem in their monocultural groups, then mingle to continue problem solving in multicultural groups. The simulation and debriefing require a minimum of three hours. The debriefing includes the highly effective method of process mapping. Ecotonos comes in a colorful box with an instruction manual, metal cultural name pins, 30 sets of laminated rule cards, and three prewritten case studies. US$195.00. Click here to view an article on Ecotonos' use by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Click here to view a customer comment on Ecotonos. Published by Intercultural Press.
Click here to visit the Ecotonos UserGroup site.
Cultural Pinwheels: Personal Style Assessment and Discussion Tool
An enjoyable right-brain way to discuss personal styles and past interpersonal misunderstandings, Cultural Pinwheels enables users to better understand themselves and others, and improves empathy, understanding and cooperation. Useful with members of multicultural or multinational work teams, Cultural Pinwheels can be used by a trainer or facilitator or by an individual or group independently. Aesthetically pleasing pinwheels that actually work, participants color in the styles they see themselves and/or others using. Each wheel on the multiwheeled pinwheels represents a different type of style: communication style, thinking style, teamwork style, and leadership style. Each wheel has four continua representing eight different styles. Participants can color in strong preferences or a mix of styles in any combination. They can personalize their style descriptions, thus illustrating that none of us are one specific or static "type".
Still under the final stages of development, demo models, which you are free to copy for your use, are available for $49.95.
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